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The Components and Determinants of School Reputation: Insights from Parents' Voices
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Oplatka, Izhar; Nupar, Idit – Education and Society, 2012
The article reviews the distinctive components of school reputation and exposes various determinants that shape this reputation among parents. Some 21 Israeli parents participated in semi-structured interviews during 2009-2010 in which they were asked about their interpretations of school reputation and its determinants. Research data demonstrates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reputation, School Choice, Parent Attitudes
Women Principals' Conceptions of Job Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction: An Alternative View?
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Oplatka, Izhar; Mimon, Rivka – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2008
The purpose of the current study was to unearth subjective interpretations of women principals concerning job satisfaction and dissatisfaction in their career and to examine whether their interpretations differ from common, "androgynous" constructions of job satisfaction developed outside the field of education but that constitute the…
Descriptors: Females, Job Satisfaction, Principals, Women Administrators
Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Teaching: The Consequences for Teachers, Pupils, and the School
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Oplatka, Izhar – International Journal of Educational Management, 2009
Purpose: Professionals and employees have been documented to perform a wide variety of extra-role activities (also called organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB)) for which they are neither paid, nor obliged to accomplish by superiors. The paper aims to obtain greater understanding of the consequences of teacher OCB to the teachers who perform…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Altruism, Job Satisfaction, Teaching Experience
The School Principal in Late Career: An Explorative Inquiry into Career Issues and Experiences in the Pre-Retirement Working Years
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Oplatka, Izhar – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2007
The purpose of this explorative study was to trace the career experiences, problems, and issues of school principals in late-career stage, the place given to this stage in the principal's career cycle, and the way by which late career is interpreted in principals' life accounts. Based on life story interviews with twelve male and female principals…
Descriptors: Principals, Interviews, Instructional Leadership, Adults